Harvey has acquired legal tech startup Hexus as competition heats up in the fast growing legal AI market.
Legal AI company Harvey has acquired Hexus, a young startup known for building tools that help companies create product demos, instructional videos, and user guides. The move signals Harvey’s continued push to grow quickly as competition in the legal technology space becomes more intense.
The deal brings new technical talent into Harvey and reflects how fast the legal AI market is evolving, with companies racing to build better tools for law firms and in-house legal teams.
Hexus Team Joins Harvey
Hexus was founded two years ago by Sakshi Pratap, an engineer with previous experience at Walmart, Oracle, and Google. The company focused on building software that helps businesses explain complex products through visual demos and guided experiences.
Pratap confirmed that Hexus’s San Francisco team has already joined Harvey. The company’s engineering team based in India will follow once Harvey opens an office in Bangalore. That expansion is already in progress, according to people familiar with the matter.
Pratap will take on a leadership role at Harvey, heading an engineering team that will work on tools designed for in-house legal departments. These departments are a growing focus for Harvey as more companies look to use AI to reduce legal costs and speed up internal workflows. She said Hexus’s experience in building enterprise-grade AI products made the company a strong fit for Harvey at a time when the market is moving fast.
Focus on Speed and Competition
Pratap explained that Hexus brings hands-on experience in solving problems that are closely related to Harvey’s mission. She said this knowledge will help Harvey develop new features more quickly and stay ahead of rivals.
Competition in legal AI has increased sharply over the past year, with new startups launching and established legal software providers adding AI features to their platforms. Many of these tools now focus on contract review, legal research, document drafting, and internal knowledge management. In this environment, speed of development and product quality have become key differentiators.
Details of the Acquisition
Before the acquisition, Hexus had raised $1.6 million in funding from Pear VC, Liquid 2 Ventures, and several angel investors. The company did not disclose how much Harvey paid for the business.
Pratap said the deal structure focused on long-term incentives for the team, suggesting that key employees will remain with Harvey and help build the product over time. This type of structure has become common in startup acquisitions, especially when the buyer is primarily interested in talent and technical expertise.
Harvey’s Rapid Rise in Legal AI
The acquisition comes during a period of rapid growth for Harvey. The company has emerged as one of the most talked-about startups in artificial intelligence, especially within the legal industry. Last fall, Harvey confirmed that it was valued at $8 billion following a $160 million funding round. That brought the company’s total funding raised during 2025 to $760 million.
The latest round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and included new investors such as T. Rowe Price and WndrCo. Existing investors also participated, including Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Conviction, and well-known angel investor Elad Gil. At the start of the year, Harvey had a valuation of $3 billion after raising $300 million in a Series D round led by Sequoia.
Growing Client Base Worldwide
Harvey says it now works with more than 1,000 clients across 60 countries. These include a majority of the top 10 law firms in the United States, along with corporate legal departments and government organizations.
The company’s tools are used for tasks such as legal research, drafting documents, analyzing contracts, and answering complex legal questions. As more firms experiment with AI, many are turning to Harvey for tools that can be customized to their specific practice areas and compliance requirements.
How Harvey Got Started
Harvey’s origin story is closely tied to the early days of large language models. Co-founder and CEO Winston Weinberg was working as a first-year associate at law firm O’Melveny & Myers when he began testing AI tools on real legal questions.
Weinberg teamed up with Gabe Pereyra, a researcher who had worked at Google DeepMind and Meta and was also his roommate at the time. Together, they tested GPT-3 on landlord-tenant law questions taken from Reddit. When they showed the AI-generated responses to practicing lawyers, the reaction surprised them. Two out of three attorneys said they would send 86 out of 100 answers to clients without making any changes. That moment convinced the founders that AI could dramatically change how legal work is done.
Early Support From OpenAI
Motivated by those results, Weinberg emailed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on July 4, 2022. The two spoke on a call the same morning, and Harvey soon received its first investment from the OpenAI Startup Fund. That early backing helped Harvey get off the ground and build its initial product. Today, the OpenAI Startup Fund remains the company’s second-largest investor.
Looking Ahead
With the acquisition of Hexus, Harvey is signaling that it plans to keep expanding through both hiring and strategic deals. As legal AI tools become more common, the pressure to innovate quickly is only expected to grow. For Harvey, adding experienced engineers and proven product builders may help it stay ahead in a crowded and fast-moving market.
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